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My dad works with people to help them find housing and while peoples’ stories are similar with a broad brush, each one is uniquely complex. There are many step
by stevesearer 4y ago
My dad works with people to help them find housing and while peoples’ stories are similar with a broad brush, each one is uniquely complex.
There are many steps involved to qualify for housing or to apply for disability benefits and it can be pretty overwhelming to navigate.
One person needed a birth certificate to get ID, they born in a state on the other side of the country, you had to mail forms to apply for the new birth certificate and then you needed an address where it could be sent, and there was a fee for a new one.
My dad’s approach is to not worry about solving Homelessness, but instead to partner with someone and help them solve homelessness in their situation.
- CivBase 4y agoHas he had a high success rate with this approach? If so, maybe we should considering employing a few people with the city or state government to do this professionally.
- stevesearer 4y agoI want to say he’s helped ~ 30 people over the past few years, but can only work with a few clients at a time. Another example was someone who wasn’t homeless (friend of friend), but was facing thousands in monthly medical treatment bills. He came to meet with the person and noticed a military bumper sticker and it ended up that the person was a veteran and likely qualified for VA benefits meaning it would basically be covered. They had some bad VA experiences in the past and had written them off. But that person very well could have ended up on the street with such large medical bills piling up.